US President Donald Trump has backed away from tomorrow's deadline for Ukraine to agree to a US-backed peace plan and shrugged off a report that US negotiator Steve Witkoff coached the Russians on how to approach him on the topic.

Despite soaring taxes flowing into the Government's coffers from US multinationals, the State's fiscal watchdog says the proportion of the windfall revenues being set aside by the Cabinet is falling.

A woman remains in a critical condition in hospital after she was attacked and set on fire at her home in Clondalkin in Dublin yesterday morning.

A series of measures to reform Ireland's asylum and migration procedures will be brought to the Cabinet by Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan this morning.

A South Korean-born New Zealand woman has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering her two young children, whose bodies were discovered in suitcases in an abandoned storage locker more than three years ago, New Zealand media reported.